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POCan a custom path be appended to the 'new' path for Rails routes?
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copied!<p><strong>What I'm trying to do:</strong></p> <p>I'm building a system where there are different types of post. Setting aside the models, this question is about the routes and the controller</p> <p>Basically <code>/posts/new</code> should go to an index page of sorts, while <code>/posts/new/anything</code> should look up the type <code>anything</code> and then build a form for creating a new one.</p> <p><strong>How I'm trying to do it:</strong></p> <p>Feel free to ignore this section as I could be completely on the wrong track.</p> <p>In the routes config:</p> <pre><code>map.connect '/posts/new', :controller => 'posts', :action => 'new_index' map.resources :posts, :path_names => { :new => 'new/:type' } </code></pre> <p>In the controller:</p> <pre><code>class PostsController # implicit: def new_index ; end def new @post = class_for_type(params[:type]).new end end </code></pre> <p>The view has code which looks at the type of @post to determine which set of views to use. Turns out this gets me 90% of the way there: <code>/posts/new/quip</code> does actually send me to the correct page to create a quip, and so forth. <code>/posts/new</code> does send me to an index page.</p> <p>Problem is twofold.</p> <ol> <li><p>I still want to have convenience methods like this:</p> <pre><code><%= link_to 'New Post', new_post_path %> </code></pre> <p>But this is now invalid as <code>new_post_path</code> requires the <code>:type</code> parameter.</p></li> <li><p>I would like to do it using one route if possible.</p></li> </ol>

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